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Doritos Commercial |
It is, after all, considered the gold standard of all advertising metrics.
But unless USA Today [GCI
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Sure, Doritos [PEP
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] is thrilled it won this year's contest, but will it affect sales of the snack? No.
Great microbrews have more of an affect on Budweiser's sales than scoring at the top on the Ad Meter.
And CareerBuilder's ad might have scored high, but it was a whiff on the message. When is it time to get a new job?? How about the right message for these times -- how do you get a job, period?
Laughs just don't sell products folks, relevancy does.
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Case in point, Cash4Gold.com was voted the 9th worst commercial by Ad Meter folks.
The spot was perfect for these rough economic times and the phone number on their Web site allows them to track exactly how much they did. It didn't exactly hurt that their buy came at the beginning of the fourth, either.
At the end of the day, Cash4Gold will emerge as the most relevant ad in this entire Super Bowl.
The 288 volunteers commissioned for the USA Today poll might have thought that MC Hammer and Ed McMahon didn't make them chuckle, but I guarantee you one of those volunteers was going home to consider whether this was the best way to trade in their gold. Not one of them thought about stocking up on Doritos.
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